For example, I'll believe that there are only a few hours in a day instead of 24; or that 2:00 is the only hour, and that once the clock hits 2:59 it will just go straight back to 2:00 again. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. John 5:24 Context. Black-or-white thoughts may also set you up for. So only is man born of God. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. . For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. He cannot make himself new, or create new life in himself. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. The House Jan. 6 select committee's fourth hearing of the month just wrapped up. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. Alas! What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? What sayest thou of thyself? Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that . The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Verse 9 "Immediately the man became well. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. MEMORIZE 1 JOHN 5:11-12 . The Central Theology in John According to John 20:30-31, the signs which Jesus performed were many. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. (Verses John 1:44-51). (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." ." Since you have been given these ears I command you to faithfully hear the word of the kingdom. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. In His name I pray, AMEN. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. Observe: not which was, but "which is." Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. , , . It is only on the basis of a present hearing and believing that one shares the eternal life of God and enjoys deliverance from present condemnation and spiritual death. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. Bible > Commentaries > John 5:24 eBibles Free Downloads John 5:24 For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. But either or both categories #2 or #3 could play a part in what it means to pray according to God's will. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. what God has done & will do for all who believe & obey Jesus! The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Rate this: Share this: Ironically, despite his great . It was not that they were better than their neighbours. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. When the man that had been healed obeyed Christ's instruction and picked up his bed to carry it home, it was construed as work, and they accused Jesus of violating their laws. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Jesus is making the profound statement that salvation is a free gift from God for those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Alone, he laments his inability to write poetry. Ephesians 3:20 Context. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Overall, around 400 couples have volunteered to take part. For example, one young. ", Jesus laid out this truth veryemphatically by starting what He said with the words verily, verily: "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. It is a way of love, joy, truth, goodness, peace with God, fruitfulness, stewardship, and glory to God with everything that we undertake for his sake. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. (Verses John 4:31-38). 1 Self-efficacy is important because it plays a role in how you feel about yourself and whether or not you successfully achieve your goals in life. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. He hath this immediately, and not merely, he shall have. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. 6 "You alone are the Lord. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. And he answered, No. Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. #1 Very truly, Jesus underlines a point by beginning with very truly. Everything he says is true. All rights reserved. At Pentecost, Jesus empowered his followers to preach his Word. through "sin." This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. The result immediately follows. 2. . PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" And let him that is athirst come. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. He was God. infinite truth! (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. There He supposes His full rejection and death. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Then, with the new nature of God, he sees Christ for who he really is, and freely receives Christ for all that he is. In 1 Peter 3:18, how did Peter explain what God has done to bring men to Himself? Breaking Down the Key Parts of John 5:24 #1 "Very truly," Jesus underlines a point by beginning with "very truly." Everything he says is true. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). 6. Today, it is still Jesuss Word that saves. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ", Faith comes by hearing and so the more we hear the gospel, the more it becomes a part of our being and the more we truly trust the Word of God. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). According to Dweck and Ehrlinger, people who hold an entity theory of human nature: a. see the world as in a constant state of flux. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. This plan centered on the sacrificial death of His only Son, Jesus Christ. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. Eph. 4 5 One who was . "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." But is passed from death unto life; both from a moral death to a spiritual life, being quickened, who before was dead in trespasses and sins; and from under a sentence of condemnation, and eternal death, which as a descendant of Adam, and according to the tenor of the law of works, he was subject to, to an open state of justification, according to the tenor of the covenant of grace; the righteousness of Christ being revealed to him, and received by faith, and the sentence of justification passed upon his conscience by the Spirit; so that he who before, in his own apprehension, was a dead man in a law sense, is now alive to God, and secure from the second death, and being hurt by it. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Art thou that prophet? It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. d. are open to new information. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. He was just stating what the Philippian jailer would hear: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you willbe saved." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me." John 5:37 In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. The hearing has ended. (Ver. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). #4 has eternal life and will not be judged The believer has begun eternal life upon salvation. "The law was given by Moses." As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." The Jews had so misinterpreted the Law of Moses about the Sabbath day that they considered the miracles that Jesus carried out on the Sabbath, violated their strict rules. Verily verily, I say unto you Who am the Amen, the true and faithful witness: he that heareth my word; by which is meant the Gospel, and is so called, both because it is spoken by Christ, and first began to be spoken by him; and because he is spoken of in it; his person, office, and work, peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by him, being the sum and substance of it: and by "hearing" it is meant, not a bare external hearing it; for so it may be heard, and not understood; and it may be understood in a notional and speculative way, and yet the consequences hereafter mentioned may not follow: but an internal hearing it is here designed, so as to understand it spiritually, or to have an experimental knowledge of it; so as to approve of it, love, and like it; to distinguish it from that which is not his doctrine, and to feel the power of it on the heart, and yield the obedience of faith unto it: for faith in Christ himself, the sum and substance of the word of the Gospel, is hereby expressed; to which is joined faith in God his Father, they being equally the object of it; and which is introduced as a further proof of the equality in nature which is between them; see ( John 14:1 ) ; and believeth on him that sent me; he does not say that believes on me, which might have been expected from him; but that believes on him that sent me, that is, on the Father; for as he that rejects Christ, and receives not his words, rejects and receives not him that sent him; so he that hears Christ's words, and receives him, and believes in him, receives and believes in him that sent him; and the same effects and consequences follow upon the one as on the other, upon hearing the word of Christ, as upon believing on the Father of Christ; and which is no inconsiderable proof of their perfect equality: for such a person that hears the one, and believes on the other. 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